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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
- pmarreck 10mo agoLooks like they got married in 1997 https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/10/melissa-duffy-scott-corley/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/10/melissa-duffy-scot... If indeed it's "Scott Elson Corley".
- skrrtww 10mo agoThe latter link is referring to different people.
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- koakuma-chan 10mo agoThis feels so medieval, the way the announcement is written.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 10mo agoPretty standard, actually. Maybe not today, I dunno. I wouldn't say medieval, though.
- 14 10mo agoIndeed. It felt like an obituary but to announce a wedding. Looking up the town Wikipedia states a population of just under 20k as of 2020 so back in 1991 when that article was written most likely less. So a very small community and I imagine that back then it was just common for people to make announcements like that. But I also think the city did hold some old fashioned beliefs and views. 1. "In 1992, Lake Forest gained national attention when it attempted to ban the sale of offensive music to anyone under the age of 18.[15] City council members used existing ordinances against obscenity—defined in the codes as "morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion"—to buttress their campaign.[15] Mayor Charles Clarke stated, "If they sell an obscene tape to somebody underage, we will prosecute."[15] The person who came up most frequently in discussions of obscene content was Ice-T, a rapper who has since also performed as an actor." Interesting to think back to those days and remember how censored thing were. I was born in the 80s so nude scenes or swearing was just not a thing on standard broadcasting here in Canada. I remember hearing shit on a show at some point and it really stood out. Then channels like Showcase came along and it seemed like it was wild as a teen. Now anything ever aired back then feels tame to today. I am surprised what defines PG13 hasn't been changed because I am certain there is nothing happening in a PG13 movie up to a R rated movie that my teens don't know about. Anyways I am going on here if I continue I am going to start talking about how I am against ID to use the internet. Just found the article like you say strangely written. Cheers 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_Illinois
- aidenn0 10mo agoWhile Ice-T was a rapper, I suspect that it was his work with Body Count (a metal group) that was the problem in 1992, as Cop Killer was the poster-child that year for "we need to ban some music"
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- mproud 10mo agoThe article says High Voltage Software, which is correct. I hope someone passes this post to him.
- mtillman 10mo agoA guy I know proposed to his wife in the end credits of summoner. They’re still happily married afaik.
- xp84 10mo agoImagine if you did that - in the end credits - and she couldn’t make it all the way to the end of the game. “Wasn’t meant to be!”
- mtillman 10mo agoNot just that, I think it was summoner 2 which means she’d have to be real committed!
- samplatt 10mo agoSummoner aka the game the "Attacking The Darkness!" video came from! :D
- astrocat 10mo agoThe heart-warming gem: > I sent a note about these Easter eggs to Scott Corley [the game's developer]. He said that he had recently pulled out the game to show the marriage proposal to his son. But he’d forgotten the code and couldn’t make it work! He and Melissa did indeed live happily ever after.
- elzbardico 10mo agoThis made my day
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- theginger 10mo agoThe old trope of forgetting your wedding anniversary cheat code.
- QuantumNomad_ 10mo agoAt least we know he’s not cheating
- giancarlostoro 10mo agoWe got around this by keeping the same number but swapping the months out. Started dating in August, actually got legally married same month, but the ceremony was in October all of the same day. I used the cheat code of familiarity to never forget.
- jdeibele 10mo agoI proposed on 01/01 and got married on 07/07. Both 2001 so 01/01/01 for the proposal but I didn't want to wait until 07/07/07. I originally wanted to do 01:01 on the 1st but we both were asleep by then. We dated for almost a year before the proposal.
- eleveriven 10mo agoThe fact that they did live happily ever after just makes it even sweeter
- proofofconcept 10mo agoReminds me of this vid by a guy who did a romhack of Chrono Trigger to propose to his then-gf who was playing through it for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0 "I proposed by hacking Chrono Trigger (Oct 24, 2008, 6m 57s)" He writes in the description about what he was going for as far as making it seem like part of the actual game while still referencing their romantic history, and how well it worked (good for them!).
- powerclue 10mo agoThat's me! I made that 17 years ago, still happily married. Took me like two weeks of full time tinkering. It involved a lot of trial and error messing with a hex editor.
- proofofconcept 10mo agoGood for you both! That is so awesome :D
- brian-armstrong 10mo agoThank you for sharing the video way back when. I remember thinking it was very touching.
- westmeal 10mo agoProps man, wish you guys a happy life :)
- Herodotus38 10mo agoI remember that video! 14 years ago it inspired me, to program a text adventure game proposal for my wife (still happily married). Thanks!
- jihadjihad 10mo agoThe way "romhack" was spelled made me think it meant "romance hack" for a second, which based on the video you linked seems appropriate, too.
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- School-Cotton 10mo agoThat’s an incredibly pessimistic thing to post on such a cute story!
- ardi11 10mo agowhat does "better" mean for you?
- Lownin 10mo agoI'm reminded of this proposal project done with Portal 2 that Valve actually assisted with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04
- MayeulC 10mo agoIt did make me think of a Borderlands one I heard about. Unfortunately, I cannot find a good writeup, and the video listed here is unavailable: https://gamesbeat.com/7-awesomely-geeky-video-game-marriage-proposals/ https://gamesbeat.com/7-awesomely-geeky-video-game-marriage-...
- AIorNot 10mo agoMine did -back in 2013 I made a short iphone game in unity for my wife and installed it on her phone - when she got past the first level it played a photo montage and marriage proposal, I was also there with a ring btw
- BoorishBears 10mo agoIs Magic The Gathering close enough? https://draftsim.com/mtg-proposal-art/ https://draftsim.com/mtg-proposal-art/ Apparently it took Richard Garfield (creator of both the game and the card) 3 games before finally drawing the card on a 4th game, and casting it to propose
- lovegrenoble 10mo agoNice, thanks for sharing.
- archargelod 10mo agoThat reminds me about an easter egg[1] in arcade racing game Horizon Chase. If you trace a heart shape (on mobile device/nintendo switch screen) at the start of the race, it plays a short video with a proposal at the end. Game is very fun too. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeKgQifaO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeKgQifaO4
- rideontime 10mo agoFun fact: The song is a music-box version of a song he'd written decades previously: https://youtu.be/LhZHntVt6cI https://youtu.be/LhZHntVt6cI
- zkmon 10mo agoSoftware teams back then enjoyed much more freedom and natural wild context. IT departments, security, audit etc weren't as pervasive as today. Yahoo chat, movie downloading, online games were all part of work life.
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- NebulaStorm456 10mo agoThis trope has been used in "Free Guy" movie (not a marriage proposal but as a love letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Guy Guy reveals to Millie that his code is actually a love letter to her from Keys: during the development of Life Itself, Keys had encoded what he knew about her tastes into an AI routine in the game, which was eventually incorporated into Free City, explaining why Guy felt drawn to MolotovGirl.
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- asimovDev 10mo agohttps://scorley.com https://scorley.com really love Scott's website. what a time capsule. Wish the visitor counter still worked. I hope he's doing alright nowadays
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 10mo agoThat's incredible, great find.
- muragekibicho 10mo agoWhat's the criteria for changing HN post titles? The earlier posting was 'A marriage proposal hidden across two playstation games' or something like that. Is there a HN bot doing this or is it the mods?
- philipwhiuk 10mo agoIt's the hard suffering mods.
- dang 10mo agoYes, we changed it in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." In this case, though, "Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)" didn't seem right, so I used language from the opening paragraph instead. That's one valid place to look, when scouring a page for representative language suitable as a title. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20representative%20opening&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- mos87 10mo agoehr.. dozens? This brings the Fallout 2 memories anyway...
- travisjungroth 10mo agoThis one was real.
- puzzlingcaptcha 10mo agoFor those who missed out: you could end up in a shotgun wedding then get a divorce in New Reno, Las Vegas-style.
- miklosz 10mo agoWait till you marry. She will make you play infinite number of games!
- skavi 10mo agoI went to U of I and I’m super curious about that “ I-L-L / I-N-I” option. Any chance someone’s found out what it does?
- montag 10mo agoThe Klax port for Game Boy Color (1999) contains a hidden wedding proposal. It took Mike Mika's girlfriend 3 years to find it https://tcrf.net/Klax_(Game_Boy_Color) https://tcrf.net/Klax_(Game_Boy_Color)
- flobosg 10mo agoNot video games, but the article reminded me of marriage proposals in scientific articles: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2815%2900492-3#acknowledgments https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%281... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437117313614#d1e7636 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711...
- collinmcnulty 10mo agoFor others clicking through, check the acknowledgements
- harel 10mo agoThis little heart warmer taught more more about game/binary hacking than more specific articles on the subject.
- eleveriven 10mo agoA story with emotional weight makes the technical bits stick better
- eleveriven 10mo agoIt's like watching someone do digital archaeology, brushing off memory addresses instead of fossils
- cowLamp 10mo agostar wars battlefront 2 (the good one) also has one
- wigster 10mo agoi remember richard garfield (game designer/MTG) created a proposal card... https://magicuntapped.com/index.php/articles/proposal-the-magic-card-that-was-used-only-once-and-for-a-wonderful-reason https://magicuntapped.com/index.php/articles/proposal-the-ma...
- demiters 10mo agoDon't see it mentioned yet - the guy behind the fantastic YouTube channel CodeParade created a beautiful little game, custom engine and everything, all just to propose to his girlfriend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EF91O2wMX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EF91O2wMX0
- pgporada 10mo agoThe one I wrote in Perl did. It also worked. https://github.com/pgporada/ourperlgame https://github.com/pgporada/ourperlgame
- alexpotato 10mo agoI always find stories like this fascinating and heartwarming. Why? B/c: - My wife is not nerdy or technical at all - In fact, I'm the only one in my entire extended family (cousins etc) that is technical So anytime I hear a story about married couples where both are SWEs (or equivalent) it's wild to me.
- potato3732842 10mo agoI haven't read the article yet but I assume he's talking about the credits of Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 2005. We'll see if I'm right. Edit: I was wrong, the author doesn't even list it.
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- ProfessorZoom 10mo agothere was one in spider-man, and the girl left him for his brother
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- ranbato 10mo agoGrim Dawn by Crate Entertainment has a secret area with a chest containing a wedding ring. Easter Egg for one of their backers to propose. I'd add a link, but Cloudflare...
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- mosburger 10mo agoI didn't do this, but I did use a spare unsigned short (used for memory alignment) in the Quantum Atlas 10K II disk drive's servo firmware to store my wife and I's anniversary date just for yucks. :P
- byearthithatius 10mo agoSo incredibly niche and specific but also theoretically viewable/verifiable. This is incredible.
- throw7 10mo agoDoes Bill Gates count?
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- Archit3ch 10mo agoReminds me of the player who modded FTL to add an event to propose: https://www.killscreen.com/ftl-proposal/ https://www.killscreen.com/ftl-proposal/
- zillazills 10mo agohttps://www.wowhead.com/npc=121086/shawn#comments https://www.wowhead.com/npc=121086/shawn#comments One of the kinder humans I've had the pleasure of knowing and one of the best people I've worked for. He and his wife met playing World of Warcraft. Also, the IRL engagement ring has a UV reactive stone and the same inscription.
- cameron_b 10mo agoThis is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.